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- URL: https://x.com/fizzychicken/status/2059246683678998683
- Author: Martin Scott (@fizzychicken)
- Posted: 2026-05-26 12:14:02
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1/ @fizzychicken
I still buy loads of programming books. If I’m approaching a new subject I’ll open up an AI and ask ‘recommend me a good book covering
AI’s have their place, and they can present info in a very concise way… but they have no character.. they have no stories to tell… they’re not telling you their experience, they are telling you distilled information.
They’re not handing down wisdom.
Give me a good book any day, written by someone who has survived the battle.
2/ @pikuma
@fizzychicken
I have tons of old books on computers, but I don’t really buy books released after 2020 (with a few exceptions).
3/ @LmnkMsh76161
@pikuma @fizzychicken
Why not books after 2020? Am i missing something, i really like programming books
4/ @pikuma
@LmnkMsh76161 @fizzychicken
Most publishers started to approach tech “influencers” to write books on topics they are not experts on. It’s a way of cashing on the number of followers to sell more copies once it’s done. Besides that, we have LLM slop now.
5/ @SprintLoom
@pikuma @LmnkMsh76161 @fizzychicken
I’ve seen this happen with LLM books where authors with 100k+ followers on X get deals despite never having trained a model or deployed a real system.
6/ @SprintLoom
@pikuma @LmnkMsh76161 @fizzychicken
Same issue in AI conferences — invited speakers sometimes picked for follower count over actual research contributions.
7/ @fizzychicken
@SprintLoom @pikuma @LmnkMsh76161
What could go wrong…